Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Fear: the History of a Political Idea, [2] which aims to ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the most influential of all political philosophers. His book Leviathan virtually founded the study of the modern state. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

SIR – Regarding your special report on capitalism and inequality (October 13th), notwithstanding our current panic it is clear that the West is wealthy by any objective standard. Our fault lies in ...

A newly discovered document, written by one of Europe's most famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, reveals a plan that, if successful, could have turned the tide of one of England's bloodiest wars. In ...

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes is our best guide to the underlying logic of current American politics, that is, as to how and why extreme civil strife seems to invite one-man rule. Donald Trump’s ...

An exterior view of the hotel at the Trump Turnberry golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, on June 13. (Tom Bergin/Reuters) Analysis by Bruce Peabody In a recent interview, President-elect Donald Trump ...